tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160415.post4170704450186671796..comments2024-03-15T08:55:29.800-04:00Comments on The Musical Priest: What the numbers do not tell usAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087811856300842855noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160415.post-63544926167279710492013-02-28T10:20:06.215-05:002013-02-28T10:20:06.215-05:00Wow. What a great post. I have been looking up inf...Wow. What a great post. I have been looking up information on <a href="http://www.ulc.org/ordination/" rel="nofollow">how to become a minister</a>, when I came across your article. Thanks so much for the inspirational post. I really enjoyed reading it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11755041481969452357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160415.post-66276069783626919442012-05-14T15:53:33.483-04:002012-05-14T15:53:33.483-04:00A fantastic piece ! And well worth a mention in th...A fantastic piece ! And well worth a mention in the Catholic Herald - for commentsMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994156038585543091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160415.post-43518844945500366382012-04-13T16:54:08.575-04:002012-04-13T16:54:08.575-04:00I agree with most of what you write but what reall...I agree with most of what you write but what really struck me here is this, "Who is willing to listen to the troubles of regular men and women who struggle each day to find God in their lives?" Sadly, I'm not sure it is the newly ordained or those who were ordained long ago and I think that is why the pews are empty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8160415.post-70665183001332965982012-04-13T14:21:23.459-04:002012-04-13T14:21:23.459-04:00This is a very thoughtful piece, as is your wont.
...This is a very thoughtful piece, as is your wont.<br /><br />And at first I may suprise you by agreeing to a great degree with you. A lot of young men are entering the seminaries with an "orthodoxy chip" on their shoulder.<br /><br />Ten years ago, the more orthodox of my friends in priestly formation regularly practiced what they called "submarining" following the dictum of "shut up and get ordained" and a good number of my friends who are now Jesuit priests made it a specific, if quiet, point to go "province shopping."<br /><br />But that was then.<br /><br />What is sometimes lacking, and to which (IMO) you correctly allude is that a lot of these men seem to bring <i><b>only</b></i> orthodoxy to the table. As if the pendulum had overswung.<br /><br />The problem, in my estimation, is not that what these men have (orthodoxy and a traditional mindset) is "bad" but, rather, it is insufficient.<br /><br />One dear friend, who is as orthodox and lower-case-t traditional as they come, commented this exact thing.<br /><br />So, what is to be done is not to say (not that I think this is what you, Ryan, are saying) "See? Those crummy reactionaries, dragging things back to the Council of Trent!" but rather, explore ways in which, without abandoning an adherence for the Magisterium, etc., may also exhibit a desire to engage the culture, to reach out to those as yet untouched by the Gospel in word or deed.<br /><br />"Both/and" not "either/or."<br /><br />AMDG,<br /><br />-J.joehttp://jmgarciaiii.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com